Alda, Alan
Summary: One of America's most recognizable and acclaimed actors, the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on, after early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.028 ALDAlda, Alan
Summary: The popular actor looks back to reassess the meaning of his own life and the paths he has taken, from the turbulent 1960s to the tragedy of September 11, and to answer such questions as "What do I value?" and "What, exactly, is the good life?"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.02 ALDBaldwin, Alec
Summary: The actor highlights parts of his life that he's long kept private, from his troubled childhood and efforts to make it as young actor to his struggles with addiction and his failings as a husband and parent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALDWIN, ALEC BALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BALDWIN BALCumming, Alan
Summary: The acclaimed actor chronicles his work in Hollywood, his two marriages, and his journey through personal calamities, bad decisions, encounters with legends, and moments of joy to become the flawed but happy middle-aged man he is today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CUMMING, ALAN CUMCumming, Alan
Summary: A beloved star of stage, television, and film, Alan Cumming is a successful artist whose diversity and fearlessness is unparalleled. His success masks a painful childhood growing up under the heavy rule of an emotionally and physically abusive father--a relationship that tormented him long into adulthood. When television producers in the United Kingdom approached him to appear on a popular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 CUMMING, ALAN CUMCumming, Alan
Summary: In his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books 2014